BOSTON -- Massachusetts awoke Wednesday morning to a new political reality that many thought impossible just weeks ago and must now prepare to work with President-elect Donald Trump, who had little support from political leaders of either party in the Bay State.

Trump's campaign, once considered a novelty, defied conventional wisdom as he rose through the Republican primaries and won the general election capping one of the most divisive and unpredictable presidential elections in history.

The president-elect faces a divided country - his critics blame him for deepening existing divisions - that will need to come together after a bruising election in order to make progress on some of the major economic and national security issues facing the country. For Massachusetts, that means uncertainty over federal funding, immigration policies, and the future of a health care law that took years to implement.

"We have seen that America is more deeply divided than we thought," Clinton said in a concession speech delivered Wednesday morning in New York.

Unsurprisingly, Massachusetts voters chose Clinton over Trump. With nearly all precincts reporting, Clinton had 61 percent of the vote to 33.5 percent for Trump. The state will now send an all-Democrat Congressional delegation to Washington where both branches of Congress and the White House are controlled by Republicans.

Gov. Charlie Baker, who shunned Trump's candidacy and blanked his presidential ballot Tuesday, will also have to work with the new Trump administration.

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"We owe him an open mind and a chance to lead," Clinton said of Trump, also urging her supporters to continue fighting for the values and rights for all Americans.

Massachusetts Republican Party Chairwoman Kirsten Hughes early Wednesday morning said Clinton's "hubris" led to her electoral downfall, but said Trump will have to work with others like Gov. Charlie Baker, who did not support him, to be successful.

"I'm as shocked as everyone else," Hughes told reporters at an election night watch party for Trump supporters at F1 Boston in Braintree.

Baker, a Republican, has in the past excoriated Trump, who beat expectations to win the Republican presidential nomination and then the presidency in the early hours of Wednesday. Hughes suggested Baker, who works closely with Democrats in the Legislature, would be able to work with a Trump administration.

"I think politics has always been a game of addition and not subtraction, and I think if Trump is successful tonight that he needs everybody playing on his team because this is not just a one-man rule," Hughes said. "It's about building coalitions with people who maybe didn't agree with you earlier. Look, Governor Baker has proved that he can work with anybody of good will and that he is willing to do that."

Some might have a harder time mending fences with Trump: "Like any bully, I think he's a vapid windbag," Attorney General Maura Healey told the News Service before the election was called.

Former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown went on Twitter Wednesday to take credit for being the "1st present or past federal official to endorse" Trump. "Time to get to work," he Tweeted.

Expressing interest in a Trump administration post if one were offered, Brown, who is now a New Hampshire resident, outlined a potential to-do list for Trump when the president-elect succeeds Barack Obama in January.

During an appearance on Boston Herald Radio, Brown said Trump should nominate a Supreme Court justice to replace the late Antonin Scalia, repeal executive orders issued by Obama, and repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, the health care access law that is one of Obama's signature achievements.

Brown, of course, scored his own shocking upset in 2009 when he ran a special election campaign for the U.S. Senate that was initially given little chance of winning before he surged to defeat then-Attorney General Martha Coakley.

"I'm still processing it," Coakley, now a private-practice attorney and lobbyist, told the News Service Wednesday.

Coakley was at the State House to attend the judicial nomination hearing for a top official within the attorney general's office.

"I guess I'm disappointed obviously, but I'm not shocked, and I think that there are a lot of counter-currents in this race that a lot of people didn't pick up on. I think we'll spend a lot of time figuring out what happened, but I think the important thing is we have a new president and we have a lot of work to do on moving forward," Coakley said.

Asked if she found any similarities Tuesday night to her race against Brown, Coakley said, "All I will say is I've had two races, actually, where as a Democratic nominee felt very strong going into the race...and the next day the results were not what I hoped for."

Coakley also lost a tight race for governor in 2014 to Baker.

U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, along with U.S. Senate Elizabeth Warren, will return to a Senate that Democrats were confident about reclaiming in the weeks before the election.

"RONALD REAGAN DEMOCRATS ARE COMING HOME"

Leaving the Massachusetts Democratic Party rally at around 11 p.m. on Tuesday night, Markey said, "The country has been evenly divided for a generation. Gore versus Bush demonstrated that, so [did] Kennedy versus Nixon and Nixon versus Humphrey and Carter versus Ford. So the country has been evenly divided and that's what where seeing here tonight."

U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy, who won re-election Tuesday, said he woke up with "disappointment and uncertainty," but was also "grateful" to Clinton and her career. He also congratulated Trump. "On January 20, he will take the reins of a country divided, impassioned, headstrong, hurting, hopeful and resilient. Together, may we work day and night to heal and march on," he said in a statement.

Trump secured his improbable victory, in part, by shattering the "blue wall" that was supposed to protect Clinton from a defeat even as polls tightened in key swing states like Florida.

"The Ronald Reagan Democrats are coming home," Dean Cavaretta, a Trump backer and former Massachusetts Trump campaign state director, told supporters at F1 Boston in Braintree.

Hughes pointed to Clinton's loss in the reliably Democratic state of Wisconsin as evidence that her campaign was "too self-assured."

"There was a lot of anger out there. There was some resentment towards the political establishment, which Hillary Clinton clearly is the poster child for," Hughes said. She said, "Part of this is that they had a pitiful candidate in Hillary Clinton - somebody who has been dogged with problems with trustworthiness, somebody who has been dogged with problems with judgment and lack of trust."

U.S. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, of Wisconsin, called Trump's victory "the most incredible political feat that I have seen in my lifetime."

Asked about the future of Obamacare, Ryan said, "This health care law is not a popular law. This health care law is collapsing under it's own weight, and so to your specific question about repealing and replacing Obamacare, this Congress, this House majority, this Senate majority has already demonstrated and proven we're able to pass that legislation and put it on the president desk."

Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito on Wednesday compared the task facing Trump and his team to the one that greeted her and Baker after their election two years ago, and suggested a need to reach out to voters who backed other candidates.

The Shrewsbury Republican told the News Service that Trump and his team must "look for every opportunity to unite and in that process help people heal" in the wake of Tuesday's election.

"There is much work to be done," Polito said. "We have a great country and we need to make it even better, and I think two years ago when Governor Baker and I were elected, there were many people that did not vote for us, and it was very important for us to reach out, and we continued to do that in order to make sure we are serving 100 percent of the people in this commonwealth, and this president and his team need to serve 100 percent of the people in this country."

Polito said that she, like Baker, blanked her ballot for president and "voted on all other questions and matters that were on my ballot in Shrewsbury."

Baker said Wednesday he "did reach out" to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to congratulate him on Trump's victory. Baker backed Christie's presidential run before Christie dropped out of the race and joined up with Trump's campaign.

"The election's over," Baker said. He observed that the remarks by Trump and Clinton reflected their desire for a "unified process going forward."

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